Extinction

Causes of Mass Extinction

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Reading Time: 6 mins
Section: Essays
Categories: Essays
Tags: Book Extinction Long-termism Planetary Boundaries

A summary of all the earth's mass extinctions and their causes.

Ecosystem Collapse

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Reading Time: 13 mins
Section: Essays
Categories: Essays
Tags: Ecosystem Collapse Ecology Cascading Ecosystem Collapse Amazon Evolutionary Anachronisms Philosophy Conservation Climate Change Regime Shift Degradation Extinction Ecosystem Health

Manifestations of ecosystem collapse in the world. (Not just climate)

My Thesis Results

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Reading Time: 6 mins
Section: Essays
Categories: Essays
Tags: Extinction Conservation Priorities Biodiversity Bryophytes Thesis Quantitative Ecology Management

How can we protect moss biodiversity from extinction when barely know most of the species?

The Cost of Extinction

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Reading Time: 3 mins
Section: Essays
Categories: Fragments
Tags: Extinction Conservation Long-termism Effective Altruism Low Hanging Fruit

Irreplaceable sources of benefit.

Responsibly Fighting Extinction

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Reading Time: 3 mins
Section: Essays
Categories: Essays
Tags: Conservation Extinction Effective Altruism

Some examples of when combating extinction might be a mistake.

Charting My Thesis Project

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Reading Time: 3 mins
Section: Essays
Categories: Essays
Tags: Thesis Conservation Extinction Phylogenetics Bryophytes Evolutionary Distinctiveness Meta Effective Altruism Low Hanging Fruit Quantitative Ecology Data Science

Finding concentrations of neglected, under-researched, unprotected species of high evolutionary distinctiveness: a case study in bryophytes